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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT J. WHITE, OF WEST NEW BRIGHTON, NEW YORK.

POLISHING-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,028, dated December '8, 1885.

Application filed May 13, 1884. Serial No. 131,408. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT J. WHITE, of \Vest New Brighton, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Polishing-Paper,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

It is sought by this invention to provide a cheap polishing material for cleaning and pol ishing all smoothly-finished and polished surfaces, such as glass, metal, and other objects. The ordinary method is to apply to the surfaces to be polished suitable powders-such as pumice or rotten-stone-and then to rub the surfaces with cloth or other rubber.

By the use of my invention I avoid the di- ILCD application of the rotten stone, pumice, or other polishing substance, thus effecting economy in the use of the polishing substance and avoiding the annoyance of scattering the polishing substance over surrounding objects.

My invention consists of an unsized paper provided with an easily-detachable surface of polishing material, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

A method of making my improved polishing-paper is as follows: In a suitable vessel I place any desired quantity of rotten stone, which I reduce, by adding water, to the consistency of cream. Vith a suitable brush I then cover the upper surface of the sheets of paper with a coating of the rotten-stone cream. The effect of this coating is to carry the wt ten-stone into the interstices of the paper. I then hang up the sheets to dry, and when dried they are ready for use, and it will be found that the fiber and interstices of the paper are filled with rottenstone. Any superabundance of the stone that remains upon the surfaces of the sheets will of itself scale or fall off. The foregoing method will be found to be a convenient and easy mode of preparing my improved paper.

The polishing substance will be held mechanically by the paper without the use of glue, sizing, or other adhesive substance, so that when the paper is dipped into water and rubbed upon a plate of glass or other smooth surface to be cleaned and polished the powdered polishing material will be readily given off from the paper and sprtad over the sun face to be cleaned and polished. and a fine polish will be secured, free from any streaks or stains of sizing.

For glass, silver, or gold, or other metallic surfaces my improved paper may, when de sired, be used dry, or a first wet cleaning may be given with my paper. The surfaces should be then rubbed briskly with a dry sheet of the same paper, which will produce a brilliant polish.

With this paper the use of polishing substances in bulk directly applied is avoided, and the polishing substances being held by the paper, show-windows and show-cases may be cleaned and polished without injury to the goods and without danger of scattering the polishing material upon surrounding objects.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an improved article of manufacture, the polishing-paper made as herein described, the same consisting of paper sheets covered with polishing material adapted to be given off from and spread over the surface to be polished when the paper is used, as set forth.

ROBERT J. WHITE.

Witnesses:

O. SEDewIcK, EDWD. M. CLARK. 

